In This Sign

The highly acclaimed novel of a family living with deafness in the pre-electronic age. Janice and Abel are a deaf couple, and true to the time, their hearing daughter becomes their interpreter in the hearing world.

Long Synopsis:

Janice and Abel are a deaf couple. Their daughter can hear, and becomes their interpreter from a very early age. The parents are ashamed of their sign language and won't sign in public, only at the deaf club or with deaf friends. The daughter is interpreting phone calls, medical and banking appointments, legal and other situations long before she understands them. This is a historical novel, of a deaf world that no longer exists, but is accurate for its time.